I'm wondering .. why is this important? This could be a huge pain if the mail server has to assume a new IP address, which happens often enough to make it annoying to update all those "old apps"...

Todd

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Smith" <john.smith@ed.ac.uk> To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:52 PM Subject: RE: OT: CFServer taking 100% processor

> Just to add to Steve's list. > > 1. Move your client variable store from Registry to an ODBC/OLEDB/native > datasource - necessary tables are generated automatically when you switch to > the datasource - we use SQL Server7 for this. > > 2. Limit simultaneous requests to say 5 per CPU **and** set resart on > unresponsive threads to < this limit, say 3. > > 3. Set your template cache to approx. 5x the total Mb of your CFML code > pages e.g. if you have 5Mb of code then set it to 25Mb. > > 4. Restart both cfserver.exe and cfexec.exe daily > > 5. Reboot the box once a week > > 6. Deprecate the use of CFINSERT and CFUPDATE > > 7. Check that you don't have CFMAIL with an empty BODY attribute > > 8. Set the address of the mail server using IP address not DNS name. > > Using the above we've gone from the same/similar scenario as yourselves, > 100% CPU usage and having to reboot several times daily to clean server logs > and 100% uptime for the past three weeks. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Nelson [mailto:m@secretagents.com] > Sent: 19 April 2001 20:46 > To: Fusebox > Subject: Re: OT: CFServer taking 100% processor > > > A few things: > > 1) make sure you're running cf 4.5 SP2 > 2) turn on Log Slow Pages, it's under Logging-Settings See if you can > pinpoint which pages are taking too long that will help to figure out > the problem. > 3) How many hits are you getting? is it possible you've just maxed out > the server? > 4) Check your web server logs to see if you're being hacked. Look for a > lot of requests with the same IP address. > 5) Turn on logon/logoff auditing in NT. Then check your NT security > events to see if you're being hacked. look for a lot of event ID 529. > That means a bad password > 6) Try lowering your simultaneous requests to the number of processors > on the server. > 7) Do you have automatic locking turned on? Turn it off. > > Try those. > > Steve > > Brian Doyle wrote: > > > > Hiya folks, > > We launched our fuseboxed site in January and have had essentially no > > problems up until recently. Starting yesterday the CF server has hung at > > 100% CPU time intermittently. We've tried a number of different ways to > > figure it out but we're stumped, as is out network guy. We haven't added > > anything in the past two days (other than a flash banner which we've since > > deactivated). The logs aren't full. We're running it on a 2000 server > with > > SQL 7.0 as well (although SQL isn't freaking out). > > > > I know its one of those stab in the dark questions, but we can't figure > out > > what it could be. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Brian > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

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